For a current project I am working on I have needed to be able to load a group of thumbnails and then allow simple drag and drop actions to re-order the thumbnails and save the new order as well as being able to delete a thumbnail.
I’ve spent some time working on this prototype and I [...]
I seem to have spent the past couple of months spending more time worrying about implementation, learning programming patterns and understanding basic programming principles and less time actually playing in Flash and doing the things are really want to.
I’m a designer, I enjoy design and good design is always the first thing I look for in [...]
Working with rich-media I have obviously needed to work with video and more specifically flash video, I have been trying to find out more and more about how to squeeze every last pixel of quality from a file whilst keeping the file weight to a minimum.
I discovered a fantastic selection of articles on adobe.com written [...]
I was surprised to recently find that many people are unaware of the fantastic Flash video bitrate calculator that was created by Robert Reinhardt and is hosted on the Adobe.com. I swear by this tool and now used it every single time I need to encode a video in the .flv format.
You pass in the [...]
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After developing the interactive and standard video scrubbers I wanted to create a version that would allow me to drag and rotate an object or scene a full 360 degrees. Rather than using 3D in flash, I wanted to find a way to create the effect that would [...]
Thanks to the great guys over at tinker.it I have been on two workshops recently to learn more about physical computing, human – computer interaction and electronics. The first workshop was lead by Alex Zivanovic and Benjamin Tomlinson who gave great introductions to physical computing, Processing, Arduino, and basic electronics. The second workshop was more [...]
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Developing the Video Scrubber further I have added ‘hot spots’ to the animation so as you drag through the video, you simultaniously drag through the hot spots as well. These can be toggled using the controls.
There are some really cool existing examples of this effect, and there are [...]
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I have been using my R&D time recently to explore better ways of creating interactive video experiences, scrolling, dragging, scrubbing and interacting with video. This prototype breaks a video in to an image sequence of around 340 jpgs, loads the jpgs in and then allows the user to [...]
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I’ve just checked on the gotoandlearn.com site and noticed another Papervision3D tutorial, as I’m really hoping to try and push my development in Papervision3D it made sense to try my hand at it. I may try and create some alternate versions of this over the next weekn and [...]
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I have finally found time to begin experimenting with Papervision3D and ActionScript 3.0 and I am very excited about the possibilities, especially after following the fantastic new tutorial on the gotoAndLearn website.